> as my colleague's excuse for my disagreeing with him is that I'm from the last generation, and so I "just don't get it"!
Nothing dates technology quicker than oldies getting hold of it and saying...

A fair portion of the population have yet to figure out what 'R' means, never mind the rest of it.

Congrats AD :)

> Now this is a marriage to be proud of Married 83 years, they have 186 descendants.
A birthday to remember every other day - that's gotta be hard work.
"What are you doing? ...

All the digits in a row, lunchtime today :)

> It seems USA army is going to try such veg robot in afganistan shortly
Have you seen Afghanistan? The place is a desert where it isn't a mountain.
Robot's gonna starve.

It should really plant...

For me, the basic problem is one of size.

Ordinarily, in a properly functioning Capitalist system, failing companies would be allowed to fail.
This either solves the oversupply problem (so that...

> I think we should just bite the bullet and go communist now.
Can you point to a successful implementation of this idea which doesn't leave everyone blind, crippled and broke, but hey, we're all...

The UK "junta" spends over £1Bn per week on "indoctrination", but 1 in 6 children will leave school after 11 years in a functionally illiterate state.

And that's despite the dumbing down of the...

Better check those AUP policies.
When you get busted, is it a slap on the wrist, a small fine, or kicked out of college.

Never mind what they might take out, it's what they might put in!

Home / school / work ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/5757194/Workers-have-daily-smile-scans.html

" a bid to boost their customer services"
More like reduce them.
Anyone with a forced smile...

Independence? Freedom? From whom?

Your $40,000 noose around your neck (http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/)
That's every citizen.

So ma, pa and 2 kids have more national debt than the house...

IRC is the "Mos Eisley" of the internet ;)

> So if you cannot put here at least 1000 memorable moments of your life, you better start thinking of throwing yourself under a train.
999 - replying to this thread.
Oh bugger.

> If I'm designing something like a game
Are you designing a game, or is this just a metaphor?

Also, where along the scale from "tic-tac-toe" to "quake" are you aiming at?
Put bluntly, if you...

What sort of game?
There are plenty of simple "web" games which can be written in Javascript or Flash. Both of which are perfectly capable of reacting to mouse movement and clicks to make something...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/)
The Blues Brothers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/)
Pale Rider (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089767/)
Terminator 2:...

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

> a higher power is the only explanation.
Funny, a bunch of people (well everybody really) thought at one time that say "thunder" was caused by gods. Do you still believe that?

EVERY stone of...

ctrl-alt-del come in for some wear ;)

> Pretty corrosive stuff!
So is free oxygen, of which there is plenty about in the atmosphere, and which is toxic to some simpler lifeforms on Earth.

I don't know and I don't care (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/5413090/European-elections-2009-No-wonder-voters-cant-be-bothered.html)

Wusses!

You were all to ready to exploit the cheap overseas labour so long as the economic pendulum was swinging in your direction. Now that it's turned, you want to get off the ride?
This...

When they're not wasting it, they've got their snouts in the trough
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/

Quick Quiz: Find a politician who left office poorer than when they...

> suppose there were another planet similar to earth in composition, temperature, and atmosphere.
The atmosphere of primordial earth was not one you could live in.
There was no free oxygen, and a...

Dunno how you're supposed to score 99 in 30 seconds though, unless there's a bonus round.

http://www.sockandawe.com/

Or Psychopath?
10078

Lots more here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/5278200/Sign-language-week-48.html

Made me laugh, in the midst of despair with all the greedy trough...

> This poll will close on 17th Sep 2010 at 16:22
Expecting something to happen then?

> Massive solar flare to blow off earth's atmosphere
Hasn't happened in 3+Bn years, so it seems unlikely to...

Are they also hiring monkeys and paying peanuts?

I thought jelo-C (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jell-O) was a new programming language in a variety of fruity flavours ;)

Too easy.
Just send out 6 random numbers to every schmuck who signs up. Just occasionally, some of the numbers will win enough for the schmuck to write some glowing piece of puff which'll go...

Actually, it's an information leak a day
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5688347.ece

So what happens, that's right, yet another privacy sapping money pit...

The only thing that has changed is the numbers have got bigger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA5faeCGg-w

http://nambulous.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/remove-the-net-framework-assistant-10-from-firefox/
Why do I need it?

Why didn't you ask me?
- I agreed to your necessary maintenance of your OS, not...

Yeah, I did that too, and it still tried to sell me the book!
Why would I want the book when I'd done all the things in the book?

"You didn't check any boxes, which makes it tough to say much about you. How about a Punk? That's what you are."
Close enough.

Big thanks to the mods for sweeping out the stables :)

Thanks to this muppet, all the programming forums have been trashed for the evening until a mod shows up and deleted all that crap.

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